The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 58

The stepmother, however, took this letter as well, and wrote a new one, in which the king ordered that the queen and the two little princes should be burnt at the stake.

Who acts: stepmother, king · What happens: take, write, order, burnt · To what, where: letter, new one, queen, stake

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmother	det
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stepmother	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 letter	det
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	6 took	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wrote	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wrote	cc
13	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrote	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ordered	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ordered	nsubj
22	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wrote	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 burnt	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 queen	det
25	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burnt	nsubj:pass
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 princes	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princes	det
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 princes	nummod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 princes	amod
30	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 queen	conj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 burnt	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 burnt	aux:pass
33	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ordered	ccomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 stake	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stake	det
36	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burnt	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the stepmother	this letter		however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	write	past	the stepmother not said here	a new one			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	order	past	the king				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	burnt	should · passive		the queen and the two little princes	the stake		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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